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Takatori, Nara
Takatori Castle
高取城
On a 583-meter mountaintop once stood a keep and 27 white turrets, so bright from the town below that a folk song mistook them for snow.
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Uemura Iemasa
植村家政
From a family of long-serving Tokugawa retainers, he rose as an aide to the shoguns and in 1640 became the first lord of the Takatori domain.
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After him, the Uemura family held Takatori Castle for 14 generations, until the domains were abolished in 1871.
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